AND THIS SAME GOD WHO TAKES CARE OF ME WILL SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEEDS FROM
HIS GLORIOUS RICHES, WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO US IN CHRIST JESUS.
Philippians 4:19 NLT ❤ (Verse on Bible Hub)

JESUS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH

Jesus gives us this invitation in Matthew 11:28: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Verse on Bible Hub)

My sweet friend, when you approach Jesus in prayer, do you bring your completely empty cup to Him and ask Him to fill it to overflowing? Or do you deny your cup is even empty?

Have we honed such great survival skills in our lifetime that we can keep up the facade that everything is fine, even when we are completely dying on the inside?

Perhaps when a loved one is sick or hurting, we feel guilty asking God to help us with something personal?

Or maybe we acknowledge our cup is empty, but we try to fill it first in our own strength. Not only to mask the emptiness inside of ourselves to those around us, but because we feel unworthy if we come before God empty handed.

Then there are some of us who are comfortable bringing our empty cups before the Lord. But we don’t linger in His presence long enough for Him to fill it to overflowing. A run by, drive through, kind of filling will leave us with lean, half empty souls and make it hard to get through the day.

Whatever our personal situation, we women tend to be natural nurturers by heart. If we come across someone who needs a hand, we lend it. A friend needs us? We are there. If our child hurts, we wish with all our hearts that we could take the hurt away.

But try as we might, we can’t pour from an empty cup. And God cannot fill a cup that we want to first fill ourselves.

When I was a newbie Christian many years ago, I felt guilty whenever I asked God to help me because I could always think of someone else who needed Him more. Or multiple ‘someone else’s’ at that. There were times I couldn’t even ask Jesus to bless me with His peace and rest because the world around me was crying out in brokenness.

Pretty much, I felt selfish if I asked Jesus to fill my empty cup until it overflowed. I believed it would cause someone else to go without.

And just as one stinky thought can lead to another, one misguided perception of mine digressed into a whole other level of crazy. I can still remember one evening in particular as I was kneeling beside my bed, my heart heavy for a friend. I remember telling Jesus, “Lord, I will be ok until You return. Please go and help her. I will be right here when you get back! “

Y’all, for real. I told Him that. More than once.

I thought I was being unselfish. I was simply putting my needs aside and raising my friend up to the throne room. Right? Well, not exactly.

In some misguided posture of humbleness, I unintentionally made myself bigger than God. I spent so many years thinking if I didn’t take care of myself, who would? So, not realizing what I was doing, I thought I needed to direct Jesus in how to take care of me. God can’t be dethroned, but I dethroned Him in my heart if that makes sense. I am so thankful for His patience and grace.

After I became a born again Believer, it took a little while of walking with Jesus before my eyes began to open to Who He really was. Each time I was willing to bend my knee to Him, yield my will to His, trade my understanding for the Holy Spirit’s guidance … those were the moments where He could flood me with more of Himself. 

He is almighty God but He’s NOT distant and judging my every move from far away. In fact, He doesn’t keep track of every time I mess up. Rather, He’s delighted each time I choose to walk in faith and believe Him.

As my Creator and loving Father Who is closer to me than my next breath, He knows my deepest thoughts before I even think them. He doesn’t think I’m a pain everytime I need help, which is all of the time! In fact, in my surrendered weakness He is made strong! (2 Corinthians 12:9)

God loves when He sees me willing to let go of old ways of thinking and come before Him with a teachable spirit.

Interested in every single detail of my life, He is faithful, approachable, trustworthy, and kinder to me than I am to myself! My protector, my counselor, my teacher, my Lord. He wants me to succeed and He wants me to let Him help me. He is my strength, peace and joy!

The closer I think I am getting to Him, the bigger He seems to grow, and thus the more I become aware that He is MORE than enough … more than capable! Its not that Jesus isn’t already huge and has some growing to do. It was me. The more I see Him as He really is, the more my fears and anxieties begin to melt away. 

We can’t receive deep revelation second hand. We can listen to many sermons and faithfully read our devotions every single day. And yes, they are super important and God can bring a timely message through them. But we shouldn’t be satisfied to stop there because then we are only nibbling on someone else’s leftovers when the King of the Universe has invited us to feed at His banquet until we are filled to overflowing.

It takes digging into His Word and meeting with Him for yourself to hear (and know) His voice, feel His heart, and see Him as He really is. It takes personal encounters with Him for it all to become very real in our hearts and not just pass through us as head knowledge.

Jesus wants to ask us the exact same question today that He asked His disciples.

He is asking, “Who do YOU say I AM?” (Matthew 16:13-17 NIV)

The disciples were aware how other people around them viewed the Son of God. And you are pretty conscious how your friends, coworkers, and your family feel about Him. But what is most important is how YOU see Him.

Our answer to Jesus’ question will reveal volumes from the deep places in our hearts. Because if we don’t see Jesus as He really is, we will continue to struggle in self survival mode. When we make ourselves larger than God, it will be hard to trust Him.

When we put ourselves on the throne, who will help us when trouble comes? 

Why would we ask Jesus for help when we don’t think He is strong enough? Why would we linger to drink deeply from His cup when we feel we can’t spare the time because we have so many plates to keep spinning in our own strength?

This God Who hung all the stars in the sky and sustains all of Heaven and Earth … we believe He will raise us up on that last day, don’t we?

Then can we trust Him to completely fill our cups today without it taking from anyone else? You are not being selfish, or taking from anyone else, when you ask for help many times a day! God is so big that each of us can be His favorite. Each of His children are the ‘apples of His eye.’

May we strive to yield, moment by moment, our need to be in self survival mode and let the Holy Spirit open our heart and mind to a whole new revelation of Christ Himself. Blessed are you, sweet sister, because this will not be revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by our Father in Heaven.

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Pause and drink deeply from His cup, dear Sister.

Jesus will be more than enough for you today. ❤

Blessings,

The LORD will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring
your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.
Isaiah 58:11 NLT

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